I like this kind of experiments. Managing an "unpredictable" lens always leads to out of common results. It requires a lot of patience and dedition to find the way to make it artistic and not just low definition. This picture shows a good point to start from! Keep on shoting and posting the results!

Well, yeah ... it's soft for the moment. This is about all I have gotten out of this lens via its first major modifications.

This particular 8mm movie lens was a bit difficult, but the shallow DOF and inherent softness may give it an "effect".

I will put up some other images later. Salut, J

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Originally posted by flaviopetrone

I like this kind of experiments. Managing an "unpredictable" lens always leads to out of common results. It requires a lot of patience and dedition to find the way to make it artistic and not just low definition. This picture shows a good point to start from! Keep on shoting and posting the results!

Thanks ... and I rarely have a firm idea as to what kind of image that I will get, if any image at all.

It's a lot of fun for me to experiment and do this weird stuff.

And thankfully I have a great thrift store nearly where I can pick up a lot of "guinea pigs" for little cost; plus I do a few "boot sales" as well.

Is the softness about focus....? Or is because it is wide open? I am loving the way you are a mad scientist with lenses exploring all these possibilities and searching for the magic of these rare lenses.....

Is the softness about focus....? Or is because it is wide open? I am loving the way you are a mad scientist with lenses exploring all these possibilities and searching for the magic of these rare lenses.....

Bonjour,

Merci! More than likely it's due to being permanently wide open ... there is no aperture. And the focus can be a challenge, too ... here I was very near or @ MFD.

I have used rubber circular washers/grommets at the end of the lens to mimic an aperture ... sometimes that helps a bit.

Kind of like this, but this image below is a "rough-cut" test to try to stop down a (different) video lens.